May RefreshAugusta Meeting May 20, 2009

This month's topics include:

A Deep Dive into jQuery
This session will dig deep under the jQuery hood and will demonstrate some of the powerful features of the framework, including the jQuery core, selecting and traversing, manipulating the DOM/CSS, event handling and Ajax.

Peter Mourfield is a Software Developer with TaxSlayer.com (an online income tax preparation and e-filing web site). He is a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer - Web Applications, a Certified Scrum Master, and leads the Augusta Developers Guild (a local developers user group).

An Introduction to CodeIgniter
In the Introduction to CodeIgniter discussion, Mike will provide a brief history of the framework, discuss why it may be the best solution for PHP development, and show off some code as he covers some of the most useful features the framework has to offer.

Mike Wales is a Senior Developer with General Dynamics Information Technology out of Ft. Gordon, GA, where he primarily dabbles in PHP, Python, Javascript and SQL. When he's not "working for the man," he manages the CodeIgniter community as the sole Community Chieftain, a public liason to the EllisLab staff.

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